We school 4 days a week and do year round schooling. It has worked so well for our family so far!

We school year round also! There is such a misconception about what that really means. I taught traditional school (both public and private for 17 years) and people are confused about it there too! Some public schools year round too. They still school for the same amount of days, it's just broken up differently. People assume when you say "year round" that you suddenly don't have any breaks! LOL. We take the entire month of July off and we also only school 4 days a week. This give us the flexibility to add in fun days, field trips, hang outs with friends, etc and not feel pressured to "catch up" on missed school work for that day. I absolutely LOVE the flexibility it offers us. I'm pretty type A, scheduled type of person but I have been able to find a balance between "getting everything done" and still being flexible and having other learning opportunities added in whenever something comes up. 😊

I started homeschool with a year round schedule, just because it made sense to me. My daughter was young and I didn’t see a benefit of taking such a big break and having to start the next year by reteaching her. I never imagined how much this would benefit our family. My son is in the hospital for 14-21 days at a time, typically a couple of times a year. I can’t imagine the added stress of school in those times. We are totally flexible to just take a break when I have to be here with my son and my daughter is with other family. It’s so beneficial to not have that pressure!

This is our first year going Year around homeschooling. We do 180 days of school, when those days are gone, we take two weeks off and move on to the next academic year. We used to travel the world and came back home afterwards to continue schooling. Now that everyone is stuck at home, we use our time to keep learning in a different way. We will probably do road trips this year and it will be perfect for us since we will be focusing on American History.

We started homeschooling last year (2019-2020) for our fifth grader. We immediately started year round schooling. She has horrible allergy problems and being able to feel horrible, and take off, and not worry about the number of days that a student was allowed to miss and not fail in our school system was so freeing!!!! We took December off. Year round schooling has been great.

"3 out of 4 years we had a hurricane." Yup, that's a good reason right there! We school year round which works out well because summers are our only nice weather days and we just naturally switch our focus during the summer to nature study and walks.

I love the Tuttle Twins!! So happy to hear you’re using them. ❤️

This video is a blessing! We decided today that year round is for us after I suffered a health crisis and needed more time to rest/heal. Love the Tuttle Twins! ❤️

Oh yay! I'm been thinking about getting the Tuttle twins but I wanted to hear a review from someone I trusted first 😍❤️❤️

Yay, yay, yay for year round homeschooling!! My kids need the continuous structure. I love the freedom it gives us to be spontaneous and take breaks when they suit us, rather than on a schedule. When we finish one level/book, we just start the next one. I don't wait for a "start date."

Just wanted to say I absolutely love your channel! I am a homeschool momma to four girls and I have always thought about doing year round schooling! I may try to ease into it this summer! Thanks for all the tips!

We LOVE the tuttle Twins! The kids I homeschool are 4,7,and 15 and they all loved them. I also taught a co-op class using the workbooks that come with them if you buy all the books. That was a big hit! I taught 4th-6th grade with those.

Great video! We 💖year round. Good reminders even for a mom like me who has been doing this for a while and needed the reminders.

I just got my Tuttle Twins books last week! I am so excited to use them for our homeschool this coming year.

Thank you! I never really thought I'd consider yr round schooling but I think you just talked me into it. You made some really good comments that would alleviate some pain points for us.

I am excited to see what you think of them! I have seen mixed reviews but they look super interesting! Isn't it so cool we learn along with our kids, love homeschooling!

I've got one girl on board for year round school and one standing firm that she needs her summer!! 😄Thanks for this video.

We started year-round homeschooling when I was pregnant with my last baby. She was due at the end of October and I knew that I would need to take some time off. So, we started the first week in August that year. That was almost 6 years ago, and we haven't stopped :-) Honestly, I love the freedom that year-round homeschooling provides. We end up taking off from Thanksgiving to New Years - and instead of doing normal "school" we spend time working on projects and crafts and other fun things. I like to use a combination of planning from behind for our homeschool as well as creating lesson plans. It makes sense for us. I call when we finish our math for the year our end date for most homeschool years, because that is the only year-long curriculum that we actually follow. It is all very fluid, but I'm used to it now that I am a decade into homeschooling 🙈

We love our Tuttle Twins set.

I just received my “Tuttle Twins” set yesterday!!! So funny.

Those books look great! Thanks for sharing!

Year round school works for us since I pulled my kids from school in Mexico where they go to school from August 22- July 16th normally. They have a longer Christmas and Spring break. But we are very flexible in our homeschooling depending on life. During this quarantine we have gone from weeks being super focused to days where it’s just reading and math. Next year I will have two homeschooling (Yeah!! My youngest was in school and the quarantine convinced all of us it was the right time to bring her home) so I will probably be a little more structured. But I love the freedom that year around homeschooling gives. Thanks again for another amazing video.

Oh this is what I needed to hear!

I just ordered the Tuttle Twins' books. Thanks for sharing.

💕this! You are confirming my thoughts. This will be our 4th year homeschooling. My older children started in the public school system so it’s been hard to break the 9 month mindset. With that said we still do math and reading all summer. With the pandemic I feel like this is the perfect time to officially school year round. We are in Ohio and most summer activities will be shut down over the summer. So why not! We will still make time to get outside. But like you said it’s great not to have the pressure of outside activities. I am still deciding how we will map it all out but I know that will come.

This was our first year homeschooling, and I didn't plan on doing year round because my husband is a school librarian and takes summers off, so we planned to take off too. HOWEVER, between COVID, falling behind in one subject, and my son eager to start "doing school" when his preschool shut down, we went for it. We do 3 days a week, M/Tu/Th on a relaxed loop. Ever day my 8 yo does math and reading everyday, and one LA subject; my 5.5 yo son gets handwriting and reading everyday, and we loop between TGTB math and a kinder activity book that has coloring and cutting activities. We love the structure it gives to the week and my kids do better that way. I think we're officially on the year round band wagon! :D

My 12-year-old daughter read them to herself this school year. I would highly recommend them. We had some great decisions after.

We are using The Tuttle Twins in our Morning Basket next year.

I ordered yesterday! Great resource indeed!!

I am excited to see more about the Tuttle Twins books!😍 I want to check those out. I have been pondering year round homeschool for quite some time so I appreciate this video so much! 💞

Love Tuttle Twins! Have the entire set. I also got my older daughter the book series for teens

We do year around too! And we too take a break before starting the next school year, usually 4-6 weeks. I like to reset the school room and bookshelves. Plus 2 of my kiddos have birthdays then too. We slowly roll in also, and still spend A lot of time outdoors. We take a lot of our books outside. We have cold winters with tons of snow, so in the winter we have longer school days, and longer school weeks because the weather is freezing. It balances out perfectly, and we can take extra days off during the year when we need to. I have a child with special needs too and stopping any longer than that throws off his routine, making everything harder. And we don’t need to do review for the first part of the new year..Plus I feel lost when I go too many days without homeschooling. So many benefits doing year around.

I have borrowed the Tuttle Twin Books from friends. They are amazing and I am looking into buying them myself instead of borrowing all the time. Can not wait to hear your thoughts on them. We do year round also. We do about 8-12 week incermints. We have to plan around family visits, going to home during good weather and military life. At times we may just have to stop to have fun and then transition back and it works well for us.

I’m always looking for good book recommendations. Thank you . We do homeschool year round too. It’s so freeing to keep going or take off time when I want and need to

We love year round homeschooling too, so much flexibility. Got the set of the Tuttle Twins books, I’ve been eyeing them. My husband will definitely love these!

I love year round school. I do like that you have a defiant start day in July. Giving you time to adjust to the new curricula before the craziness starts. Our busiest month is September / October. That has always been hard because we start up on coops and then have to take off for holidays and events (we celebrate YomKippur, Rosh Hashanah and Tabernacles). But we love year round school.

we LOVE the Tuttle Twins books :)

We love the Tuttle Twins books

We love year round schooling for sure! Our state doesn't require anything from us thank and praises to Jesus! We tend to count days just because I'm a little type A. And we just shoot for 180 days a year and takes days off when every we want/need too. Lately we have been doing our group subjects together 4 days a week and my boys have been choosing to do all 4 days of independent work in one day, not my favorite way, but its working and work is getting done. I'm a bit like that myself hyper-focus on one task all day example: I paid bills, balance check book, and budget once a month. It takes all day, but then I'm done and don't worry about it until the 10th of the next month. There are a lot of real life jobs that have 12 hour shifts where you work 3-4 days a week then your off for 3-4 days or one week on one week off. There is so much variety in life so we use some of the same variety in our homeschool as you said its a way of life and so learning and working and living are just all encompassed together. Stuff gets done planned and unplanned. Sometimes we are heavily hitting the academics and other times we are heavily hitting the farm work and other times when possible we are taking a rest and relaxing week. Thanks for sharing!

We've done a fairly traditional schedule the last couple years (breaks not as long as public school though in order to have a longer summer). I'm thinking this year about doing 5-6 weeks on & then 1 off because like you said - cleaning, appts, massive grocery stock up trips so I don't have as many other weeks, etc. I always start planning by looking at what break we want for Christmas & us being at the 1/2 way in the curriculum Mark by then & moving backwards to see when our start date would need to be.

We went to year round the first year. This year ...our second year is tight. That's because we are currently taking a 58 day/ approx 8 week break. June 1st is our first day of the new school year. We are doing the 6, 6 week units again, with one week in between each unit, no two week breaks this year. Plus there is a need for flexibility this year, even though its tight,. We take our summer break in spring because of the heat here. My daughter did not get to go anywhere during her break due to the pandemic. We are going to have alot of field trip days to make up for it. I'm planning a flexible fun schedule with a focus on the basics. I need year round homeschool, hopefully next year we will only break for 6 weeks. Two week breaks are so awesome in the burnout months!

We are so similar in our homeschooling. We are transitioning to full year schooling this summer. We are schooling until June 30th, and we will take July off. New year starts in August! I'm excited. Like you, I always planned stuff for summer anyway.

We do year round schooling too and I think there’s a common misconception that we do school every day all year with no breaks but it’s not true for anyone I know. Our family just takes breaks when we actually need them and if we finish a book we just move on to the next one.

In NZ, public school has 4 terms of about 10 weeks and 2 weeks off between. Summer and Christmas is the same time so a 6-7 week break before starting the new year at the beginning of February . For our homeschool we do 6 weeks of school and one off, do Christmas schooling for December and then start the new year the 2nd or 3rd week in January (depending on how many visitors we have). I try to ease into it and have a fun study to start the year but we will be in full swing when the public kids just start. Then we get to take a holiday in March when the heat is (usually) easing off and everyone else is at school. We just got home from our holiday before Lockdown this year, and so glad we had that chance to get to the beach for a few days.

We’ve gone yr round due to wanting breaks. Nothing wrong wiv going to the Beach or the Park. Nothing wrong wiv homeschool in the evening. We don’t count weeks as we don’t need to. We sometimes take dec off.

We are in our fifth year of homeschool and have been doing year round since then. Our oldest of five daughters finished her entire year of kindergarten in 90 days so in January of the followong year I started up her first grade curriculum (she couldn't wait) so ours organically happened. Once we did this, I always wanted to be done with the year by Thanksgiving, then Halloween and this year we are striving to be done by Labor Day (meaning our main curriculum subjects Bible, Language Arts, Math, etc...). We are a family who absolutely loves fall and spends all our time outdoors during that time. We also really enjoy winter. We also don't do any extra curricular activities at this point because we have five girls between 3 and 9 and that is a lot to handle but were wanting to add those in this year starting in the fall/winter. We are wanting to sign our girls up for ninja warrior classes which they will love. After Labor Day we will also fit in all of our science experiments and recipes we didm't complete during the first 8 months of the school year. We also fit in field trips once public school has started in the fall so we have a better experience than we would if it were summer and packed. It gives me a lot more flexibility.

My husband is going to be sold on the Tuttle Twins books!

I homeschool three of my four kiddos, my oldest wanted to attend a military catholic High school and he is thriving there, but he has the “regular” school breaks, and for the past two years I have followed his breaks for our homeschool. Said that I would really love to homeschool all year around but not sure how could that be realistic when having my son home from school breaks... Mainly summer I think is the struggle as he is home for 10 weeks 🤔 Great video, now need to go and watch the one you linked. ❤️

We are starting our homeschool in the Fall. Beginners. I LOVE this idea of not cramming everything in to a 9 month period and not having the stress of making sure everything is done. Question, for a beginner homeschool parents and kids, would it be easier for them to do the year round homeschooling schedule? Maybe give them more time to get acclimated. Or should a parent try to do the 9 month first and get into the groove of what homeschooling with a schedule of academics before switching to year round and being more relaxed? Summers are really Summers, in the Mid West right now with the Covid19 stuff. Not a lot to do with other families or field trips. This has given me so much to think about. Thank you for posting this. Really great and encouraging!

This was so helpful. Thank you for sharing.

*waving - Another type A personality here too. We homeschool year round as well. Interested to hear how you plan to work SCM & TG&TB into your schedule. We tried SCM last year and I found it to chaotic for my personality. Too much jumping from one book to another, getting things from here and there.

We LOVE our Tuttle Twins books! I really want to get their books for older kids sometime. :) And we don't have the newest one yet. - Rebekah

I’m with you year round school!!!!!!!

We’ll be starting our first “year round” school year in July! We’ll finish up our current year at the end of May (we should already be finished, but had several times we missed a few days or week...which is why I’m excited to start year round!) and start back the first Monday after July 4th. This is the first I’ve heard about the Tuttle Twins! I’m looking forward to hearing more and looking them up.

I tried this last year but I have family that comes in for separate weeks at a time using the summer and I felt cheated out of being able to take breaks when I need them vs when I have family over (which are not breaks). I really can’t mentally homeschool whenever we have guests. I don’t know how to feel free in my desire to do homeschool the way I want to when the rest of the world (including family) continues to operate on the public school schedule. Any guidance here? I would love to be able to take a day off here and there throughout the year - not entire weeks in the middle of the summer. Ends up not allowing for the semi spontaneous respite flexibility that I feel is the biggest benefit to year round homeschooling.

What do you do on those weeks you take off? And how do you keep from falling completely out of routine? Also, this was very helpful! Thank you!!

I don’t homeschool but I also feel like summer shouldn’t just be just time to do nothing! I have my 5th grader continue her reading do the library’s summer reading program. I have highlights top secret agent to learn about different countries. My mom just got her little passports us states subscription so we’re going to learn about states. I have some workbooks for her to do too. Definitely going to work on her cursive and writing skills since writing is her weakness! We’ll see if her school is open in August?? I feel like her doing this has made her a better student!

A week is 5 days and they don't have to be consecutive days. Example Mon, Tues, Wednesday. Off Off, Monday, Tues. That's an example page in my planner of a week of school. Fill in the dates and days as you go. I do the same thing, it's needed esp around the holidays.

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Since watching this video I’ve seen Tuttle Twins ads on Instagram and Facebook. 😂😂😂

I love this video. I have been doing year round homeschooling as well. It’s been a game changer. My SIL uses year round also. Also, thank you for the Tuttle Twin review. I keep putting off ordering but may have to give in and get some.

I'm really thinking about going year-round this year and there's one, almost silly question that I have. How do you coordinate this with back to school sales for supplies? I really count on those sales to stock up on everything we need for the year. I'd like to start School early, but I don't think I will have the notebooks, pencils etc. that we need. How do you handle this?

Would you still do year round if you live where there was 4 seasons? I live in Utah, and I love the 4 seasons but summer is my favorite.

Also, (IMO) that was the point of our public school education...to not learn those important principles of our constitution. And now here we are. :( I've been doing a mini election unit with my kids this past week.

I want to try year round schooling but I get nervous. We live in Washington state and we really look forward to the summers here. I am nervous that we would never get school finished. But I am drawn to the flexibility of year round schooling because the rainy months get really long.

I just ordered that set 2 day ago! Yay!!!

Those picture books are beautiful 😍 I have a question - What chapter books would you suggest for a beginner reader who is just transitioning into chapter books? It's beeb so hard for me to find clean and pure chapter books for young readers...

Tuttle twins is a politically biased series. It basically teaches kids to become libertarians. Not to mention the implications it gives that to be a patriot, you have to be a Christian. I would love to find a series that isn’t biased in any way (religiously or politically) that will engage my students and teach them about the same topics.